Today is a big day…I will sit in a reclining
chair open my mouth wide…and an orthodontist will be putting braces BACK on my teeth!! It is like I am stepping
back in time, reliving a part of my childhood that I was happy to leave behind
me. Here I am, a 30ish wife & mother
who should be saving for my daughters braces NOT mine!
Why you ask… yeah, I asked that too! When I was
told that I had to have braces again I had tears when I screamed WHY?!?! Not really but I was screaming and crying on
the inside!
Over the years my teeth moved apparently they
didn’t like their home. When I was a teen my dentist put veneers over some gaps,
when he should have sent me back to an orthodontist but he didn’t. He was a
crack head and was just setting me up to be his lifelong veneer replacement
patient. Needless to say the crack head is
no longer a dentist after getting busted. Wait I shouldn’t say that, I am not
sure if crack was his drug of choice.
When my baby teeth fell out, my adult teeth
didn’t come out at the bottom of the gum they poked out at different angles. One
front tooth stuck out of the front of my gums. My family “lovingly” nicknamed
me… Snaggle Tooth. It didn’t bug me as a kid, but I do have a fear of it coming
back and haunting me now.
In the 1980s I was youngest patient for my 1st
orthodontist who has since retried. Braces were placed as teeth grew in. I even
had one of those fashionable head gears! Thankfully I will not have one this
time. My braces came off in middle school when most kids had theirs put on.
I know a lot of adults have braces but this is my
story and I will whine about it if I want too!
After I stopped repeating Dr. Featheringhams
words “you do need braces again” over and over again in my head while she went
on about the bottom teeth hitting the gum behind the top teeth not being good
for my jaw bone. My mom’s voice popped in my head. When I was a child after
every tightening we would get in the van and she would tell me “be glad you’re
doing this as a young kid and not an adult it would be much worse”! Yeah,
Thanks Mom! A lot of good that did!
So to celebrate this… this… this… new step in my
life we did what Westmeisters do, we had a party! Last night I told our
daughter, she is 7 what fun (yes I lied through my gapping teeth to her) getting
braces will be. My goal is to make braces fun so if she needs them she won’t
fear them. I plan on drinking a lot of alcohol to mask my pain. We went to a
movie & dinner then home for cupcakes cookies tons of hard & chewy
candy & gifts! What party doesn’t have sweets & gifts? We all got new
dental care items. Maci, got a Justin Bieber tooth brush that sings to her. I
got a water pick and tools to clean food out of my braces, that’s a lovely
thought! Shawn got a new toothbrush that doesn’t sing but he gets to listen to
me whine while I clean my teeth so he’s good!
Well I am off. I am thinking about asking if she
can wire my mouth shut, it seems like a sure way to lose a few pounds!
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